Total Health SOULutions

03/26/2022

Last one for the night…. Grief and a Well-Made Bed followed, as you might expect, Rosary Beads. Managing grief is no easy task and finding ways to be gentle with yourself while still beginning to wade through it is no small thing. Sometimes you just have to start…..

https://lovethatlaction.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/grief-and-a-well-made-bed/

Originally Posted: Friday, December 7, 2012 My day should have started much like any other. I had worked until 1:00 am on a custom quote for a new client and had to get up this morning and put th…

03/26/2022

The second blog post that resides close to my heart is Rosary Beads. Sometimes life is terribly hard and tragedies happen. How do we navigate those times? How do we teach our children to journey through them? It’s part of life and yet, life is still precious.

https://lovethatlaction.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/rosary-beads/

Originally Posted: Wednesday, December 5, 2012Two days ago, I received an email from the Director of Religious Education at the church where my children attend CCD. She was asking us to pray for …

03/26/2022

Life and Candy Land…. In this old blog post, my Kate was only 7 years old but she was still able to teach us all something about winning and losing. Because, sometimes, we don’t so much fear that we will lose, what we are afraid of is winning. And then being seen. Being noticed. Having the responsibility that comes with “winning.” That is why healing our stuff - our gunk - is so important. It’s amazing what you can learn during a game of Candy Land…

https://lovethatlaction.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/life-and-candy-land/

Originally Posted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 When I was a little girl, my Irish father used to joke around with his five daughters and say, “What do you know? You’re just a girl.& #…

03/26/2022

It’s fun to see how far you have come sometimes. But there is still value in these old words of mine. So, if you ever feel stuck or need to free yourself from a mountain of stress, this old blog post is for you. My Own Personal Sacred Feminine…

https://lovethatlaction.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/my-own-personal-sacred-feminine/

Originally Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 I’ll admit it. I loved the Da Vinci Code. Great movie. And I loved the idea that women might have had a more equal status than what is tradit…

03/26/2022

This is probably the blog post that is nearest and dearest to my heart because it tells the story of my dad’s transition to Heaven. I was honored to witness it and I love him and feel him with me to this day. How much does your soul weigh?

https://lovethatlaction.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/how-much-does-your-soul-weigh/

Originally Posted: Monday, July 16, 2012My father was 77 when he died on March 27, 2012. Pentecost Sunday. He was a deacon in the Catholic church, an educator, a hospice chaplain, a gifted speak…

03/26/2022

This old blog post has been on my mind recently, mainly because the gas prices are the same now as they were then. But this was perhaps the day that changed everything (for the better) in my life. Gas tanks and miracles, people…..

https://lovethatlaction.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/gas-tanks-and-miracles/

Originally posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Yesterday sucked. There really is no other way to describe it. It was a tough day of roadblocks and setbacks with work projects topped off with broken…

03/26/2022

I am consolidating both my writing and my videos into one place, so tonight I am going to be adding a few of my favorite old blog posts from my “Love That LACTION” blog. Laction was a term we coined in the early days of Genesis to mean the result you get when you combine “your language plus your action.”

This is the inaugural blog entry called, “God is Great, yeah yeah yeah, God is Good…”. Enjoy!

https://lovethatlaction.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/god-is-great-yeah-yeah-god-is-good/

Originally published: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 “What if God was one of usJust a slob like one of usJust a stranger on the busTrying to make his way home”We had an absolutely unbelievable…

07/10/2020

We need more dialog and less debate. Tammy Duckworth said she didn’t understand why Tucker Carlson slammed her for being open to a national dialog but he felt fine about saying he was open to a debate about the same topic.

It’s because a dialog requires that you listen. And a debate is a fight where the only goal is to win. The only reason you listen in a debate is to be able to pick apart your opponent’s position. Note the terminology. Your opponent. It’s adversarial by design.

But a dialog is different. A dialog takes place between two people with a goal of understanding the other better by the end. This is a very different thing. It not only requires listening but also an ability to articulate your position in a way that *the other person* can grasp it! The goal is to create understanding!

There is no name calling, no flinging of insults in a dialog. Those are the things that stop a dialog. There is no “because that’s the way it is” in a dialog. If you can’t articulate the Why of your position, than that is part of the problem and it encourages you to go and truly think about the root of your beliefs - to think about and discover the Why. Which sometimes means you discover that you believed something for reasons other than what you thought superficially. And information like that is always illuminating and always good information to have.

We need far more dialog in this world and far less debate. We are a nation of diverse peoples. Intentionally built that way. And even if we hadn’t been intentionally built that way, it is certainly what we are today. It can either be our strength or our downfall. Dialog will make it our strength. Debate-only will make it our downfall.

We are stronger together than we apart.

We are the UNITED States of America.

— Elizabeth McGonagle
Founder, Total Health SOULutions

06/21/2020

100 TIPS REWIND....

So often lately, watching the news and scrolling through social media leads one to believe that this country is irrevocably fractured. Read the comments of just about any post and chances are good that you will come away wondering when we lost the ability to have a respectful, civil dialog. Name calling, insults, and sometimes worse is running rampant and it is exhausting so many people. We start to wonder if they are creating an Olympic event for who can be the nastiest to someone and some people are training for a gold medal.

Is that the end of the story?

Is this all we have left?

Is there any hope that we can start seeing each other as what we ALL are.... Children of God?

There is Hope. People, at their core, are inherently good. All people. Including those that don’t look like you and those that don’t act like you and those that don’t live near you. People are inherently good because they were made in the image of our Creator and He is LIGHT in its most pure form and in every sense of the word.

So how do we come out of this? Well, one step would be to begin to look for the Light of God in every person you meet or read about or see.

But even more important than that, it starts by having us look within ourselves for that same Light of God. For us to begin to choose to turn away from those Spiritual Cancers that keep us separate from God in our daily lives and begin to choose instead those Fruits of the Spirit, those behaviors and qualities that bring us closer to God, more aligned with Him, more in communion with Him and the Side of Good.

Earlier this year, I talked about the Our Father (in the attached video). The prayer that Jesus taught us to pray each and every day and we talked about how that prayer tells us that we have the ability to experience Life “on earth as it is in Heaven.” It isn’t necessary for us to die to experience the Promise Land of God, but it is necessary for us to LIVE in a manner and BEHAVE in a manner that is consistent with who God is in order to experience it here. To begin to respond and feel and think in a Christ-like way. And, in this video, we talk about HOW to get there. How to do that.

We aren’t there right now but we can be.

(And if you have read this far and are thinking to yourself, “Yes, those people need to start doing all of that that she said!”, than I am going to remind you that self-righteousness is one of the Spiritual Cancers and I am in fact, talking to you as well.)

Take a minute and turn off the news and stop scrolling for just a second and spend a minute finding out how we can all experience “Earth as it is in Heaven.”

I have faith in you. I see the Light within you - even if you don’t see it yet.

P.S. I will post a list of the Spiritual Cancers and a list of the Fruits of the Spirit in the comments section below. Please refer to them and ask yourself which ones you have, which ones you need to release and heal, and which (healthy) ones you need to develop.

This isn’t the end of the story. Not by a long shot.

Peace and love,

Liz

01/29/2020

Some beautiful humanity for your day....

“On Wednesday in Alabama, a Walker County Sheriff's Office Deputy came across a man walking down the road with an oxygen tank and learned he is a Disabled American Veteran trying to walk/hitchhike from the Jasper area to Huntsville for a Dr. Appointment he was told he could not miss. With no way to get there, he said he started walking. The deputy acted quickly and escorted the Gulf War Veteran to the Cullman County line where a Cullman Sheriff Deputy picked him up. The deputy then transported him to the Morgan County Line where a Morgan County Sheriff Deputy took over and met a Madison County Sheriff Office Deputy in Huntsville who finished the trip and took the man to his appointment. After an overnight stay, we were happy to do it all again today..... in reverse to help get the man back home. We are thankful for our Veterans and were honored to play a small role in supporting this man who gave a great deal for our country!” 🇺🇸 ❤️

Credit: Morgan County Sheriff's Office

01/28/2020

Holocaust Remembrance Day.

We Remember....

01/25/2020

100 Tips in 100 Days
Tip #100: “There is more that God has to tell you...”

It is our final Tip!! Woohoo!!

In two places in the Bible, we discover that we have not been told every single thing that God has to share with us. In John 20:30, we find out that there were signs that Jesus performed in front of the disciples that we were not told and in John 16:12, Jesus himself tells us that there is “much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.” And he goes on to say that the Holy Spirit will deliver that information.

Do you know how exciting that is? That there is more to discover, more to learn, more to know? God is not done speaking to us yet and that is the best news I can think of.

Tune in today for our final tip as well as a summary recap of what we have learned in this last 100 days.

For Reference: John 16:12, John 20:30

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Join Elizabeth McGonagle of My Daily SOULution and Total Health SOULutions as she gives you bite-sized actionable tips that you can use between now and the New Year to improve your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Watch for yourself or to help someone you love. Life can always be better than it is and we promise, there is a SOULution to every problem.

Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video if you feel like someone on your feed can benefit from its message. Don’t forget that if this is your first time watching one of the SOULutions videos, put a “1” in the comments section and if you are catching it on a replay, please put “Replay” in the comments, so we can thank you properly for watching. We appreciate each and every one of you!

01/24/2020

100 Tips in 100 Days
Tip #99: “On Earth as it is in Heaven: Do we have to wait for the Promised Land?”

“Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name....”. When Jesus taught people to pray, it was really a departure from what they were used to. He encouraged them to speak privately to God - in the quiet of their own homes and the quiet of their own minds. And he taught them these words to use. Today, many of us know them so well and have said them so often that we could do it in our sleep.

BUT...

Hidden in these words is the phrase that tells us we do not have to wait to die to be a part of God’s promised land - and tells us what we have to do to experience it. Tune in today to find out how to claim that for yourself.

For Reference: Matthew 6: 9-13

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Join Elizabeth McGonagle of My Daily SOULution and Total Health SOULutions as she gives you bite-sized actionable tips that you can use between now and the New Year to improve your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Watch for yourself or to help someone you love. Life can always be better than it is and we promise, there is a SOULution to every problem.

Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video if you feel like someone on your feed can benefit from its message. Don’t forget that if this is your first time watching one of the SOULutions videos, put a “1” in the comments section and if you are catching it on a replay, please put “Replay” in the comments, so we can thank you properly for watching. We appreciate each and every one of you!

01/23/2020

100 Tips in 100 Days
Tip #98: “Do Not Add To or Subtract From”

These are words that we are familiar with because they are present in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. People use these phrases to defend the Bible as a whole in its entirety, but is that what they meant when they were spoken? Or have we been misinterpreting to what they were referring? Tune in today for the rest of the story.

For Reference: Deuteronomy 4:2; Revelations 22: 18-19

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Join Elizabeth McGonagle of My Daily SOULution and Total Health SOULutions as she gives you bite-sized actionable tips that you can use between now and the New Year to improve your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Watch for yourself or to help someone you love. Life can always be better than it is and we promise, there is a SOULution to every problem.

Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video if you feel like someone on your feed can benefit from its message. Don’t forget that if this is your first time watching one of the SOULutions videos, put a “1” in the comments section and if you are catching it on a replay, please put “Replay” in the comments, so we can thank you properly for watching. We appreciate each and every one of you!

01/22/2020

100 Tips in 100 Days
Tip #97: “Healing Generational Wounds”

So we have spent the last few moNths covering everything in your present life that might need your attention or might need to be healed. However, sometimes, we do all that work and then still feel like something is slightly off. Like something is missing. When we come to that place, it is time it look at generational wounds. Tune in today to see how to do that.

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Join Elizabeth McGonagle of My Daily SOULution and Total Health SOULutions as she gives you bite-sized actionable tips that you can use between now and the New Year to improve your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Watch for yourself or to help someone you love. Life can always be better than it is and we promise, there is a SOULution to every problem.

Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video if you feel like someone on your feed can benefit from its message. Don’t forget that if this is your first time watching one of the SOULutions videos, put a “1” in the comments section and if you are catching it on a replay, please put “Replay” in the comments, so we can thank you properly for watching. We appreciate each and every one of you!

01/21/2020

100 Tips in 100 Days
Tip #96: “Infants and Cobras”

What is the significance for today in Isaiah describing a time when predators and prey would be able to graze and relax together - side by side? When an infant could lie next to a cobra without concern for harm? What does that mean for us in today’s world? Tune in today for those answers.

Reference: Isaiah 11: 1-10

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Join Elizabeth McGonagle of My Daily SOULution and Total Health SOULutions as she gives you bite-sized actionable tips that you can use between now and the New Year to improve your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Watch for yourself or to help someone you love. Life can always be better than it is and we promise, there is a SOULution to every problem.

Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video if you feel like someone on your feed can benefit from its message. Don’t forget that if this is your first time watching one of the SOULutions videos, put a “1” in the comments section and if you are catching it on a replay, please put “Replay” in the comments, so we can thank you properly for watching. We appreciate each and every one of you!

01/21/2020

100 Tips in 100 Days
Tip #95: “What happens when we die?”

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Join Elizabeth McGonagle of My Daily SOULution and Total Health SOULutions as she gives you bite-sized actionable tips that you can use between now and the New Year to improve your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Watch for yourself or to help someone you love. Life can always be better than it is and we promise, there is a SOULution to every problem.

Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video if you feel like someone on your feed can benefit from its message. Don’t forget that if this is your first time watching one of the SOULutions videos, put a “1” in the comments section and if you are catching it on a replay, please put “Replay” in the comments, so we can thank you properly for watching. We appreciate each and every one of you!

01/20/2020

100 Tips in 100 Days
Tip #94: “The Agony in the Garden”

Most of us know the story of how Jesus spent his last night before his Crucifixion ordeal began. But what can we learn about our lives today from studying what Jesus and the disciples did that night? Tune in today for those answers and more.

Reference: Luke 22: 39-53, Matthew 26: 36-46, Mark 14: 32-42

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Join Elizabeth McGonagle of My Daily SOULution and Total Health SOULutions as she gives you bite-sized actionable tips that you can use between now and the New Year to improve your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Watch for yourself or to help someone you love. Life can always be better than it is and we promise, there is a SOULution to every problem.

Thanks for watching and please feel free to share this video if you feel like someone on your feed can benefit from its message. Don’t forget that if this is your first time watching one of the SOULutions videos, put a “1” in the comments section and if you are catching it on a replay, please put “Replay” in the comments, so we can thank you properly for watching. We appreciate each and every one of you!